red blue divide in takeup of electric vehicles

My biggest concern right now with electric cars (other than the whole batteries shorting out in a wreck thing) is the mileage on them sounds great... but I have to imagine if you're driving over like the Snoqualmie Pass in WA or driving through a blizzard that changes the charge on the battery cause of the strain (driving over the pass) or temp (the blizzard).

I know they have meters and shit inside to tell you how much time you have left but if I am driving from Seattle to The Columbia River Gorge for a music festival, as of now, I seriously doubt there will be many charging stations on the way.

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thats about 180 miles according to the google, within range of some of the newer electrics, as i said thay are not suitable for everyone due to their different needs, but theres always the range extender version,which adds miles , its just provided by a gas powered generator, its not used every day, just when you need it.
and norway has 48% of its cars electric now, they get a little chilly over there i hear.
charging stations are coming, just like mobile phone masts werent common................... before they were.

thats about 180 miles according to the google, within range of some of the newer electrics, as i said thay are not suitable for everyone due to their different needs, but theres always the range extender version,which adds miles , its just provided by a gas powered generator, its not used every day, just when you need it.
and norway has 48% of its cars electric now, they get a little chilly over there i hear.
charging stations are coming, just like mobile phone masts werent common................... before they were.

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I'll 100% jump on the electric car bandwagon if I can get something resembling an F150 or F250 that allows me to haul stuff around. Until then I'll probably be sticking with gas or diesel as that's what those things run on.

I'll 100% jump on the electric car bandwagon if I can get something resembling an F150 or F250 that allows me to haul stuff around. Until then I'll probably be sticking with gas or diesel as that's what those things run on.

Ride a hybrid across Mississippi and see the looks you get. This is definitely a blue/red thing. I've seen it first hand. Especially if you are male. A gal may be able to pull it off but in my neck of the woods huge pick-ups are the rule for guys, whether they use the truck bed or not.

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Right now I'm hauling a full load of oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen... hell, there's all kinds of gasses back there.

Once the "cheap" Teslas become available you'll see more people gravitate towards them, but there are still lots of people who do require a truck for various tasks, and probably disproportionately so in red states. We ride in my buddy's Model X up to his cottage and it is definitely the coolest vehicle I've ever been in, we were driving in an ice storm once like it was a summer day and the acceleration is incredible.

give it a few years, there will be a well established second hand market, and as they bacome more common, i think production scale will bring new prices down.
as for charging, i dont know your driving needs, but in the uk most journeys 90% are less than 30 miles a day, so less charging needed, and public fast chargers, they are working on a 15 minutes version will make it more accesible to people, drive to work, plug in, or drive to the coffee shop, think of wireless internet, it was patchy at first, now its everywhere.
people who predict this sort of thing have brought forward the "tipping point" for mass uptake , its inevitable that at least 50% of ther cars on the road will be electric in the near future.

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There are more and more public charging stations popping up in my main city. My office parking structure had plenty of spots. I plugged in my garage and charge was never a concern.

I'll 100% jump on the electric car bandwagon if I can get something resembling an F150 or F250 that allows me to haul stuff around. Until then I'll probably be sticking with gas or diesel as that's what those things run on.

We could have decent "green" vehicles already. Biodiesel has been a reality for over 10 years like hybrid engines. Whenever Algae is finally cracked we'll finally see the shift though since Exxon is balls deep in it.

Electric motorcycles are a fair way behind in terms of being price and performance competitive, so I doubt I'll make the leap soon.
On the other hand electric bicycles are improving hugely, and could extend my use of the treadly enormously. In fact the current major drawback is local legislation limiting the assistance to 250w (nominal) and 25km/hr.